I AIN'T NOBODY REAL SPECIAL

I was born in Kitimat B.C. in 1963, raised in the Okanagan (Armstrong/Vernon area) and then moved up to Hazelton B.C. That is where I met my husband Mike and where we raised our two boys. After a 15 year break, raising boys,and working full time I've got back to song writing and have written  approx. 60 songs.

In 2000 I quit my job at the "whole log chipper" and started a nursery, called "APRIL SHOWERS GARDEN SUPPLY". That year some friends and I formed a band called "APRIL AND THE JAMCATS". We had a lot of fun playing music together and performing at Music Festivals. I also enjoyed learning some very wonderful oldtime songs with my Grandpa, (who passed away this fall at age 87), my Mom, sister,brother-in-law, son and nieces all took part in playing a homemade washtub bass, spoons and washboard. We fondly dubbed our little group, "Grandpa and the Hazelnuts".

In the past year I have become a Mom-in-law, a Grandma and had to pull up roots for the first time in 24 years to go with my husband to be where the work is. It is in this last 5 years that I have written most of my songs. Songs about everyday life.

"I ain't nobody", is a song I wrote.It has a good groove. I feel it is a song that conveys that no-one is a "nobody", but nobody is real special, to the point that they are "better" than others. We're all in this world together with pretty much the same goals ,I feel, you know, after we're born and grow up. We want to love and be loved, to make our little mark in this world with our individuality.......

......have enough happy times to experience laughter, enough bad times to keep us real and hopefully, before our lives as we know them, come to an end, put ourselves into the loving arms of our Creator and know that this bumpy little path on earth is only the beginning of something greater than we can fathom. Life can be good! But there's more!

So, ya just gotta check back, if you like songs about regular people in real life, done in Rock, Blues and Countryrock music.

  Songs that will let you know trouble and strife gets us all along the way, it's nothing to be ashamed of! And if we want trouble and strife to have a happy ending, it most often will.